DECLARING THAT “the bestcity deserves the best publicuniversity,” Chancellor JamesB. Milliken is putting forth hisambitious vision for a moreglobal, more digital, more

STEM-focused City University of NewYork that will build on CUNY’s rich history,raised academic standards and otherstrengths to develop a tech-savvy 21st-century workforce.

“Our goal should be for the Universityto achieve its full potential in serving thepeople of New York,” Chancellor Millikentold the Association for a Better New York(ABNY) in his first major policy addresssince his appointment as Chancellor.

He detailed an ambitious eight-pointagenda “for the next 10 years” — a “newspirit of engagement” — proposing thatCUNY lead in workforce development,develop stronger public-private partner-ships to benefit students and faculty, andfoster research and technology develop-ment. The Chancellor envisages a “GlobalCUNY” benefiting the city by addressingglobal challenges and a “Digital CUNY”expanding online courses.

“Our challenges are significant but thepayoff is enormous,” the Chancellor said.

Keynoting a Nov. 19 ABNY breakfast atthe New York Public Library, ChancellorMilliken told the gathering of business,civic and nonprofit leaders that CUNY

serves “many students who otherwisewould have little or no opportunity.”Among the University’s strengths, he not-ed, are its exceptionally diverse, 274,000degree-seeking students — a record enroll-ment this fall — as well as accomplishedfaculty and “a steady rise in CUNY’s valueand reputation,” driven by a 15-year drivefor improved academic quality and“strategies for student access, mobility andsuccess.”

The latter include CUNY’sgroundbreaking Accelerated Study inAssociate Programs, or ASAP. The inten-sive, highly structured community collegeinitiative, now a national model, has

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Ann Jacobs and JeffreyButts of John Jay College havebeen awarded $639,212 fromthe Pinkerton Foundation forthe “Pinkerton FellowshipInitiative”; and Jacobs hasreceived a $100,000 grantfrom the NY State Division ofCriminal Justice Services forthe “Prison to CollegePipeline (P2CP).” “OpeningDoors LearningCommunities,” a projectunder the direction ofMarissa Schlesinger ofKingsborough CommunityCollege, has won a $470,000grant from the Robin HoodFoundation. Elaine Klein ofthe Graduate School andUniversity Center hasreceived a $334,016 grantfrom the NY City Departmentof Education for “The SIFECurriculum.”

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THIS IS THE UNLIKELY STORY of aone-time taxi driver, his circuitouscollege career, and the “cognitive map”

that led him to a Nobel Prize.John O’Keefe was a child of working-

class immigrants, born in Harlem andraised in the South Bronx. He struggled inhigh school, enrolled in a private college,transferred to City College, drove a cab atnight and took six years to graduate.

His undergraduate path to a baccalaure-ate degree in the 1960s would be familiarto many students today.

And the journey took him far. This yearhe received one of the world’s highest hon-ors. With two of his former students,O’Keefe won the 2014 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine for discovering thebrain’s “inner GPS,” which enables animalsto figure out where they are and how to getsomeplace else.

O’Keefe credits his undergraduate yearsfor setting him on the right path. “Wespent a lot of time talking in the cafeteriaand hanging out on the south lawn, “ hesays. “It was really quite an exciting time.Those days were very, very important tome in forming a lot of my ideas about howto begin to think about the way in whichthe brain might actually form conceptsand memories.”

Now 75, O’Keefe is the 13th Universitygraduate to win a Nobel Prize; five otherswere in medicine, three in physics, two inchemistry and two in economics.

The journey from navigating a cabthrough city streets to discovering the“inner GPS” was far from smooth orstraightforward.

O’Keefe, the son of Irish immigrantswho worked in the Newark shipyards dur-ing World War II — his father was later aNew York City transit bus mechanic —delayed college because, he says, he “didn’tdo very well academically” at Regis, aJesuit high school in Manhattan and failedto get a scholarship.

A “poor performance in the classics atRegis meant I was better off trying some-thing else,“ he says. So when he finallyenrolled at New York University, he choseto study aeronautical engineering.

O’Keefe attended school at night and tobring in money and pay tuition, workeddays in a Wall Street brokerage and in the

engineering department of an insurancecompany.

“It was the days of Sputnik and it wasvery glamorous,” he says, referring to theSoviet Union’s first satellite in 1957, whichstarted the Space Race, ratcheted up theCold War and sent a nuclear shiverthrough America. “I had it in mind to notonly make airplanes, but rockets andspaceships.”

But making ends meet financially wasalways a struggle, he says. Things got easierwhen he landed a job as a junior engineerat Grumman aircraft, the Long Islandcompany that “generously helped withtuition.”

At Grumman O’Keefe met engineerswho were studying at City College and City

College students who worked summerjobs. And after three years at NYU accu-mulating math, physics and engineeringcredits but not getting close to a degree, hedecided to make a change.

“It became clear that if I could getaccepted at City to study in the daytimeand could survive without a full-time job, Ihad a much better chance of obtaining adegree than carrying on for an indefiniteperiod in the evening,” O’Keefe says.

He transferred to City and attendedtuition-free, just as seven of 10 full-timeCUNY undergraduates do today. “I’m pret-ty sure I never would have gotten a degreeif I hadn’t switched to City College,” hesays. “The fact that City was tuition-freemade it possible.”

Still, he recalls, he “didn’t have anymoney and had to earn my keep” driving ataxi nights and weekends. “I also worked inthe library at City College and as a projec-tionist for the film courses,” says O’Keefe.

At City, O’Keefe took a leisurely strolltoward his 1963 bachelor’s degree. Hestarted as a physics major but was soenticed by the variety of courses availablethat, “I acted like a kid in a candy shop.Why wouldn’t it be interesting to takecourses in film studies and advancedEnglish courses? I took many, many phi-losophy courses, from philosophy of sci-ence to ethics to philosophy of religion.”

O’Keefe met his wife, Eileen Hoeppner,in a philosophy course. “That was tremen-dous,” he says. Graduating in 1962, shebecame a professor of public health at

London Metropolitan University. She haspublished on globalization, health impactassessment, human rights, communitydevelopment with housebound elders andthe mental well-being of children. Theyhave two grown sons, Kieron and Riley.

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Joseph Awadjie Terrence F. MartellChairperson, Chairperson,University Student Senate University Faculty Senate

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James B. Milliken Jay HershensonChancellor Secretary of the Board of Trustees and

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Charles DeCicco, Margaret Ramirez, Neill S. Rosenfeld Writers

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FromTransferStudent to Nobel John O’Keefe, Nobel Prize winner,in his lab at University College London

WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT if people had a built-in GPS system, so we’d know where we areand could figure out how to get to

someplace else?Well, actually, our brains do have such a system.

It’s standard equipment in most creatures, and itdoesn’t work by triangulating satellite signals.

Its discovery won the 2014 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine for John O’Keefe (CityCollege, 1963) and two of his former students, theNorwegian husband-and-wife team of May-Brittand Edvard I. Moser.

O’Keefe, awarded half the $1.1 million prize, in1971 discovered specialized nerve cells in thehippocampus, a brain structure that’s also involvedin emotions, learning and memory formation (hewas looking at rats, but humans have thisstructure, too). Certain of these memory cellsalways fire when a rat is at a particular place in aroom, while other nerve cells always fire when therat is elsewhere. He concluded that these “placecells” build up a map of the room.

The Mosers studied with O’Keefe in 1996, and he“trained us to do the type of single cell recordings

Discoveringthe ‘Inner GPS’

One powerful influ-ence on O’Keefe wasthe late professorKenneth B. Clark, theeducational psycholo-gist who debunkedsupposed differencesin the mental abilitiesof black and white chil-dren; his research wasinstrumental in theSupreme Court’s rul-ing in Brown v. Boardof Education, the land-mark 1954 decisionthat declared schoolsegregation unconsti-tutional. In his coursein motivation, Clarkbrought in “peoplefrom all walks of life. Iremember clearly [civilrights activist]Malcolm X spending awhole hour telling usabout how thingslooked from his per-spective. He was veryintelligent and I took agreat liking to him.”

Another influentialprofessor was DanielLehrman, founder ofRutgers University’sInstitute of AnimalBehavior, who stoppedby City College on his

way home to Greenwich Village to teach acourse.

“I was fortunate to take that course inanimal behavior,” says O’Keefe, whoremembers Lehrman “flew” across the

classroom to show how ring dovesconceive and demonstrated every nuanceof their mating behavior.

But it was psychology that captivatedO’Keefe the most, particularly as he“developed an interest in how aspects ofpsychology could be explained in terms ofbrain function,” he says.

“A chap called Phil Zeigler,” now aDistinguished Professor of Psychology atHunter College, “was an incredible inspi-ration,” he says, and also gave him his firstlaboratory research experience.

At age 83, Zeigler (City College, ’54) stillruns a lab, directs Hunter’s undergraduateneuroscience program and is trainingdirector of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D.program in behavioral and cognitive neu-roscience. For more than 50 years, he hasexplored the neural basis of behaviors likelearning, eating and exploration. Currentlyworking with Hunter associate biologyprofessor Paul Feinstein, he looks at thegenetic and neural bases of the exquisitelyrefined way that rats use their whiskers tonavigate in the dark.

Zeigler became the first researcher inCity College’s psychology doctoral facultyin 1961. O’Keefe, still an undergraduate,worked in his lab and attended Zeigler’sphysiological psychology class. It was agraduate course that would now be calledneuroscience and covered the physiologyand anatomy of the nervous system andwhat little was known about the behaviorof the brain. Zeigler remembers O’Keefewas excited about what he read. One of thethings that was important to him, Zeiglersays, was that “I let him use my reprintcollection, so he could go over the litera-ture.”

Twenty years ago Zeigler, withoutremembering O’Keefe had been his stu-dent, requested a reprint of one ofO’Keefe’s articles. O’Keefe reminded himof their connection and they’ve stayed intouch since.

After three years at City College — sixsince he had begun his undergraduatework — O’Keefe had accumulated morethan 160 credits, some 40 more than wereneeded for most bachelor’s degrees. “Adean said to me, ‘You’ve got enough creditsto take a degree in several subjects, so whydon’t you take one of them and look toyour future?’” O’Keefe says. He chose psy-chology.

With grants from Canada and the U.S.National Institutes of Health, O’Keefeearned a Ph.D. in physiological psychologyat McGill University in Montreal in 1967.There he developed techniques for record-ing the activities of single cells in thebrains of freely moving animals.

Heading to University College Londonfor postdoctoral training and supported byanother NIH grant, he focused on the hip-pocampus, a brain structure that wasknown to be involved in memory storage.He discovered that certain “place cells”fired selectively in response to an animal’slocation, laying the basis for his eventualNobel Prize.

O’Keefe has remained at UniversityCollege, where he was appointed Professorof Cognitive Neuroscience in 1987. He nowdirects the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre inNeural Circuits and Behaviour.

City College President Lisa S. Coico,who has invited the Nobel laureate to behonored at spring commencement, says ofO’Keefe, “He told me City College is whatmade him who his today. We are veryproud of him.”————————————————————————Jay Mwamba of the City College Office ofCommunications and Marketingcontributed one of the two interviews withJohn O’Keefe used in this story.

Searching for Zion: The Quest for Homein the African Diaspora, by Emily Raboteau of

City College, won the 2014American Book Award. Awork that takes readers ona journey from Harlemacross the globe on a questfor the Black PromisedLand, it was also named abest book of 2013 by TheHuffington Post and The

San Francisco Chronicle, is a finalist for theHurston Wright Legacy Award, and won the NewYork Book Festival’s Grand Prize.

Jonas Reitz of New York City College ofTechnology has received $3,100,000 in grantfunding from the U.S. Department of Education,Title V, for “Strengthening Institutions: A LivingLab: Revitalizing General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology.” Marzie Jafari ofLehman College has been awarded a $440,230grant from Perfect Choice Staffing for the“Registered Nurse Completion/MSN Program”;and $202,224 from the NY City Department ofSmall Business Services for “Home Health Aide.”Selena Chu of Queens College has received a$184,000 grant from Verizon for an “IndustrySpecialized Training (IST) Course.”

The PHS/NIH/National Institute ofGeneral Medical Sciences has awarded HunterCollege a $1,418,439 grant for a “ResearchInitiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE)Program: Minority Biomedical Research Program(MBRS),” directed by Victoria Luine. NevilleParker of City College has received a$1,200,000 grant from the National ScienceFoundation, for the “NYC Louis Stokes Alliance.”Maria Williams of York College has beenawarded three grants, totaling $700,000, fromthe NY State Education Department: $400,000for “ESL Integrated with Civic Classes”;$200,000 “To Support Lower Level ESL Classes”;and $100,000 “To Enhance Current ESL and HSEClasses.”

Ruth Milkman, a professor of sociology atthe Graduate School and University Center andresearch director at CUNY’s Joseph F. MurphyInstitute for Worker Education and LaborStudies, has been elected president of theAmerican Sociological Association (ASA).Founded in 1905, the ASA is dedicated toadvancing sociology as a science andprofession, and promoting the contributions to,and use of, sociology by society.

Nkechi Madonna Agwu of Borough ofManhattan Community College has received aFellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora

Fellowship Program totravel to Nigeria to workwith the Federal Universityof Technology Akure, Centerfor Gender Issues in Scienceand Technology, on acurriculum development/teaching-research/capacitybuilding project, titled,

Culture and Women’s Stories: A Framework forCapacity Building in Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) RelatedFields.

Steven Markowitz of Queens College hasbeen awarded $1,812,996 from the U.S.Department of Energy/Steelworkers Charitableand Educational Organization for “MedicalSurveillance of Former Department of Energy

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CUNY’S NOBEL LAUREATESArthur KornbergNobel Prize for Medicine, 1959City College, Class of 1937Robert HofstadterNobel Prize for Physics, 1961City College, Class of 1935Julius AxelrodNobel Prize for Medicine, 1970City College, Class of 1933Kenneth ArrowNobel Prize for Economics, 1972City College, Class of 1940Rosalyn YalowNobel Prize for Medicine, 1977Hunter College, Class of 1941Arno PenziasNobel Prize for Physics, 1978City College, Class of 1954Herbert HauptmanNobel Prize for Chemistry, 1985City College, Class of 1937Jerome KarleNobel Prize for Chemistry, 1985City College, Class of 1937Stanley CohenNobel Prize for Medicine, 1986Brooklyn College, Class of 1943Gertrude ElionNobel Prize for Medicine, 1988Hunter College, Class of 1937Leon LedermanNobel Prize for Physics, 1988City College, Class of 1943Robert J. AumannNobel Prize for Economics, 2005City College, Class of 1950

PROFESSORS:Harry MarkowitzNobel Prize for Economics, 1990Baruch College, Distinguished ProfessorEmeritusPaul KrugmanNobel Prize for Economics, 2008Distinguished Scholar, Luxembourg IncomeStudy Center, CUNY Graduate Center

Laureate

that we have been doing since,” Edvard Moser toldNobel Media. “The three months I spent in his labare the most efficient learning period I ever had. Hehas been a fantastic mentor and it’s extremely nicethat we can now share the prize together.”

In 2005, the Mosers provided the second piece ofthe “inner GPS” puzzle when they discovered “gridcells” in the entorhinal cortex, an adjacent brainstructure, which activate when rats pass certainlocations. The grid cells create a hexagonalcoordinate system that allows for precisepositioning, navigation and data storage so placeinformation is available for future use.

We use this spatial system and the memories ittriggers all the time, such as when we say, “I washere before, with Jason, and we talked about theKnicks.”

O’Keefe and the Mosers have turned theirattention to Alzheimer’s disease, which attacksthese brain structures in its earliest stages, leadingto the classic signs of patients losing their way andfailing to recognize where they are. Alzheimer’s laterdevastates the hippocampus, stripping awaymemory. O’Keefe says that their basic sciencediscoveries can be put to practical use. “Spatialmemory tasks are very good predictors of whichpeople with mild cognitive impairment will go on tobecome Alzheimer’s patients,” he says.

Student, Teacher Reunion. JohnMogulescu is now the senior Universitydean for academic affairs. But in 1968 hewas a newly minted sixth-grade teacher atP.S. 20 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.The job was a challenge: A young, whiteteacher viewed by a class of black studentsas a “a hippy with a ponytail.” Ultimately,

the students grew to respect and adore him,according to Joy Palmer. She should know.Palmer was one of “Mr. Mogulescu’s” bestpupils in 1968. Now at CUNY, more thanfour decades later, she is among his bestalumni. As the result of a happycoincidence, Palmer now holds a master’s indisabilities studies from the University’s

School of Professional Studies, whereMogulescu also serves CUNY as dean. Thereunion of teacher and student began aboutthree years ago at an SPS awards ceremonywhere Mogulescu was opening speaker.Palmer was there, too, receiving a post-bac-calaureate Advanced Certificate inDisability Studies. (She was among the firstgroup of students to graduate from theschool, established in 2003, at theUniversity Center.) At the ceremony,Palmer noted Mogulescu’s name on the pro-gram. She was amazed. “It can’t be John,”she said to another student. But it was.Later, when she came on stage, she says,“we hugged and cried.” “We immediatelylooked at each other,” Mogulescu agrees,echoing his student’s rendition of the meet-ing. “We recognized each other and gaveeach other a big hug.” This, though, wasonly the beginning of Palmer’s SPS educa-tion. The student, now 56, went on to earn amaster’s in disability studies from theschool in 2011. Mogulescu placed the mas-ter’s degree hood over her academic gown.Now, she works as an adult day/supportedemployment supervisor at HeartShareHuman Services of New York.

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CUNY ranked as one of the top 10 destination universities for foreign students … CUNY’s Journalism School receives$1.2 million grant for a diversity initiative.

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Workers”; and Seogjoo Jang of QueensCollege received a $120,000 grant from theU.S. Department of Energy for “ElucidatingPositive Quantum Effects for Efficient andCharge Transfer Dynamics in Soft SolarEnergy Conversion Systems.” The College ofStaten Island has received $368,391 in grantfunding from the Massachusetts Clean EnergyCenter for “Field Surveys for Offshore Wind,”under the direction of Richard Veit.

Jermaine Wright, associate director ofCUNY’s Black Male Initiative, has been namedan inaugural Fellow ofThe College BoardProfessional Fellowshipfrom a national pool ofhigh-caliber candidateswho have devoted theircareers to furthering thecause of equity ineducation. The Professional Fellowship is amanifestation of The College Board’scommitment to diversity and inclusion byrecognizing the outstanding accomplishmentsof rising leaders who are committed toeducational equity and social justice.

Richard P. Alvarez, the Universitydirector of admissions, has been appointedChair of a National Advisory Committee onTransfer Admissions by the NationalAssociation for College AdmissionsCounseling. Arnaldo Bernabe, the director ofpublic safety at Hostos Community College,has been honored by the Fund for The City ofNew York as one of six public servants whoreceived the Sloan Public Service Award for2014. He is the first CUNY-wide public safetyofficer in the civil service rank to receive thishonor.

Marco Tedesco of City College hasreceived two grants from the National ScienceFoundation: $268,068 for “CollaborativeResearch: Assessing the Impact of Arctic SeaIce Variability on the Greenland Ice SheetSurface Mass and Energy Balance,” and$133,497 for “Intergovernmental PersonnelAct (IPA) – National Science Foundation Polar

Programs”; as well as a$117,076 grant from theUniversity of Georgia for“From the Ice Sheet to theSea: An InterdisciplinaryStudy of the Impact ofExtreme Melt on OceanStratification andProductivity near West

Greenland.”

Peter Lipke of Brooklyn College has beennamed a fellow by the American Academy ofMicrobiology for his research on the cell wallsof Candida albicans, a naturally occurringfungus that populates the human gut andmucus tissue in animals. His work hasimplications for improving the health of thosewith compromised immune systems due toconditions like HIV, chemotherapy or organtransplant.

The National Science Foundation hasawarded Jayne Raper of Hunter College a$1,125,433 grant for a project entitled “BasicMechanism Underlying Species-SpecificTrypanosome Resistance.” Thomas Weiss ofthe Graduate School and University Centerhas received three grants: $150,000 fromHumanity United for “Global Centre for theResponsibility to Protect”; $119,966 from the

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SHAKEN BY A TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD in Brazil, Lisandra De Fraga came to New York in 1999, took a free adultESL program at City Tech, earned an associate degree at LaGuardia Community College in 2014 and is pursuing a B.A.at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her goal is a Ph.D. For her perseverance and accomplishments, she — and nine

other mature women CUNY students — received $10,000 grants from the Women’s Forum of New York Education Fund.The award, also given to five students over age 35 at other colleges, recognizes often heroic efforts in overcoming adversityto succeed academically.

Other award winners are:Kathleen Daniel (CUNY Baccalaureate, 2015) earned aGED after immigrating from Trinidad and an A.A. via theASAP Program at Borough of Manhattan CommunityCollege.Kiyoko Hairston (Lehman College) coaches actingstudents while educating diabetic adults about food choices.Jannette Jwahir Hawkins (City College, 2015) complet-ing her five-year studio artprogram, plans to earn an MFA.Simonne Isaac (John JayCollege, 2015) once afirefighter in Trinidad, planson lawschool.

Syeda Kabir (Lehman College) from Bangladesh, earned anA.A. at Hostos Community College (2012) and studiesaccounting.Cristina Mihailescu (LaGuardia Community College,2014) won a Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship and is atColumbia University.Rita Rivera (City College Center for Worker Education,B.A. 2015) intends to become a social worker.

Karolina Rodriguez (Hunter College) majorsin English and French literature and plans

to pursue a doctorate and an academiccareer.

Emilie Unterweger (Borough ofManhattan Community College) is atColumbia University.

Women’s Forum Awards for Overcoming Adversity

Women’s Forum Education FundFellows, from left, KarolinaRodriguiz, Rita Rivera, SyedaKabir, Simonne Isaac, KathleenDaniel and Lisandra DeFraga

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Baruch College was ranked No. 9 onthis year’s “Top 50 UndergraduatePrograms for Entrepreneurship” listreleased by The Princeton Review andEntrepreneur magazine. In addition,Baruch is listed at No. 14 on the list of “Top50 Graduate Programs forEntrepreneurship.” Baruch was also listedat No. 2 in the “5 Schools That Cater toUndergrads Who Want to Be TechInnovators." With 590 enrolled students inBaruch’s entrepreneurship courses for Fall2014; eight full-time faculty, includingthree endowed chaired professors; and 12adjunct faculty; the entrepreneurship pro-gram at Baruch College is an educationalleader in entrepreneurship in the country.Robert Franek, Princeton Review seniorvice president and publisher, said, “We rec-ommend Baruch College … this year notonly for their superb faculty and widerange of courses in entrepreneurship, butalso for their out-of-class offerings. Theirstudents have extraordinary opportunitiesto network with established entrepreneurs,interact on teams that turn promising ideasinto possible startups, and develop skills tolaunch their own successful businesses.”For the seventh year in a row, the collegewas chosen for this annual list from morethan 2,000 schools surveyed by ThePrinceton Review for Entrepreneur maga-zine. Evaluations were based on key crite-ria such as teaching entrepreneurshipbusiness fundamentals in the classroom,staffing departments with successful entre-preneurs, excellence in mentorship, andproviding experiential or entrepreneurialopportunities outside of the classroom.Undergraduate and graduate academicprograms in entrepreneurship at BaruchCollege are under the auspices of TheLawrence N. Field Programs inEntrepreneurship based at the ZicklinSchool of Business.

CUNY Graduate School of Journalismreceived $1.2 million for a diversity initia-tive. To address the large underrepresen-tation of minority journalists innewsrooms, the CUNY Journalism Schoolwill launch a diversity initiative thatincludes an all-expense-paid, two-monthsummer internship program for 20 partic-ipants and free tuition for five of them toits graduate school. The three-year diversi-

ty program is supported by $1.2 millionfrom the John S. and James L. KnightFoundation. Participants will be recruitedfrom historically black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, CUNY, and the mem-bership base of several journalismorganizations representing underservedpopulations, including the NationalAssociation of Black Journalists.

Fresh Vegetables to Queens. BaruchCollege assistant professor Regina Bernardhas teamed up with her students to launcha program to bring organic fruits and veg-etables to Corona, where they say healthymeals are in short supply. “It’s not hard totell there’s a real food gap in this part ofQueens,” Bernard told the New York Daily

News. The pilot pro-gram was launched

in June and usedthe “communi-

ty supportedagriculture”model whereresidents

work directlywith local farms.Such programs

can cost up to$600 for one

season of theproduce that

bypasses the grocerystores for direct delivery to residents. ButBernard and her students offset the pricefor Corona subscribers by holding bakesales and raffles, reducing the cost to about$20 a week.

LaGuardia Community College won a$2.9 million grant from the U.S.Department of Education. It was one of 24colleges to be awarded money in a compe-tition that drew 500 applicants.

Acclaimedplaywright and actor

Danny Hoch,Tectonic TheaterProject, and

Urban BushWomen are

among the firstperformers

who willwork withfaculty and

students inthe new CUNY

Artists in Residence collaborativeprogram. For students pursuing under-graduate and graduate degrees inperforming arts education, a key elementis the master class taught by working pro-fessional artists. Master classes benefitboth students who gain invaluableinstruction on their craft, and also work-ing artists who receive commissions fortheir time and inspiration from emergingactors, dancers and musicians. This yearabout 150 students on six CUNY campus-es are expected to enroll in master classestaught by the first group of visiting artistsin residence. The six campuses participat-ing in the pilot program are: City College,Kingsborough Community College,Borough of Manhattan CommunityCollege, Brooklyn College, College ofStaten Island and Lehman College. OtherCUNY Artists in Residence that will beholding master classes include: TheCivilians theater company and Fist andHeel Performance Group. If successful,University officials hope to expand theprogram to the 14 CUNY campuses in fiveboroughs that offer degree programs inthe performing arts.

Nelson Receives the NationalHumanities Medal from PresidentBarack Obama. Filmmaker and CityCollege alumnus Stanley Nelson hasfocused on documentaries on the civilrights movement. His most recent film,“Freedom Summer,” covered the 1964 vot-er registration drive in Mississippi andaired in June on PBS’ AmericanExperience to wide acclaim. Nelson didn’tfind his calling in film until his early 20sbut has gone on to produce more than 20documentaries. He’s won five Emmys, twoPeabodys and a MacArthur “genius”award. “There’s a feeling that we all knowabout the civil rights movement,” saysNelson. “Part of this is finding new andexciting voices that we haven’t heard.”

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ForeignStudents Flock to CUNY.A Brookings Institution study foundCUNY ranked as one of the top 10 destina-tion universities for foreign students on F-1 visas from 2008 to 2012. University ofSouthern California was No. 1; CUNY wasNo. 6. The study also found that 45 per-cent of the foreign students extend theirvisas to remain in the college cities ortowns, benefiting local employers withtheir skills.

Oscar-nominated director StephenDaldry will be lending his filmmakingexpertise to City Tech students through-out the coming year in an exciting projectto produce two short films about the col-lege. To communicate data about CityTech in a more compelling way, collegeofficials decided to hold a film competi-tion open to students pursuing degrees incommunication design or entertainmenttechnology. Tammie Cumming, director ofCity Tech’s Office of Assessment andInstitutional Research, who is a closefriend of Daldry, approached him aboutthe project and asked if he would serve asa consultant. Daldry is known for his char-acter-driven films, including “Billy Elliot,”“The Hours,” and “The Reader.” AlthoughDaldry is busy promoting his new film,“Trash,” a thriller about Brazilian streetchildren, the director agreed to partici-pate in the City Tech project and will bevisiting the campus periodically to advisethe students on their films. On Oct. 22,Daldry was at City Tech to listen as ninestudent teams pitched their film ideas. Inthe next phase, Daldry and a panel ofjudges will select two winning teams andstart shooting the two short films.

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tripled associate degree pro-gram graduation rates. Anotherinnovative and successful pro-gram is CUNY Start, a low-costprogram that offers remedia-tion to underprepared studentsin reading, writing and mathe-matics before they matriculateat the community colleges.

“Now over half of the under-graduates at our most selectivecolleges, such as Baruch,Hunter, Brooklyn and City,start as community college stu-dents, meet remediationrequirements and then transferto a senior college,” theChancellor told the ABNY,whose chairman, Bill Rudinannounced the creation of anew $10,000 community col-lege student scholarship.“CUNY is providing a pathwaythat gives students a meaning-ful opportunity to succeed,”Milliken said.

“It’s no surprise that the val-ue proposition at CUNY isreceiving national attention,”added Milliken, who alsoemphasized CUNY’s affordabil-ity, noting that at least 65 per-cent of students attend collegetuition-free due to their lowincome, the affordable tuitionrates and the financial aid fromfederal, state and local sources;and 80 percent graduate fromCUNY colleges free of federal student loandebt. Brooklyn, Baruch and QueensColleges were recently named byWashington Monthly magazine as “thethree best ‘bangs for the buck,’” he noted.

Recounting a bit of CUNY’s history,Chancellor Milliken declared that thevision articulated by Free Academyfounder Townsend Harris in 1847 — “ ‘letthe children of the rich and poor take theirseats together and know of no distinctionsave that of industry, good conduct, andintellect’ … remains vital today.”

“The record in the second half of the20th century is more mixed,” he said, “withvery important, positive movement madein access and diversity, but the conse-quences of an undifferentiated system ofcolleges with remediation necessary atevery campus took its toll on CUNY’s quali-ty, reputation and its value to its students,the city and the state.”

The last 15 years saw the Universitydoing “the difficult and sometimes contro-versial work of raising standards andincreasing quality while at the same timedeveloping strategies for student access,mobility and success,” he continued. “Wehave seen a steady rise in CUNY’s valueand reputation, along with outstandingaccomplishments,” including creation ofnew graduate schools of journalism andpublic health, the highly selectiveMacaulay Honors College and the new-model Guttman Community College.

But now, he said, there are “new chal-

lenges … and opportunities,” and CUNYmust respond to dramatic changes in thehigher education landscape. These, he said,include the United States’ descent from“No. 1 in educational attainment” to 14thin the world, the high college costs and the“astounding” student debt that hasprompted public questioning of “the quali-ty and relevance of higher education.”

Globally, he said, “We have lost ourlead.”

CUNY “should make no apologies for itspursuit of quality over the last 15 years,”the Chancellor said. “The fundamentalmission of public higher education is toprovide both access and excellence. ... Letme make this clear: On all counts CUNY isdelivering on its promise far better than itdid a generation ago.”

But he said, “Despite all the progress …we have a lot left to do.” The ChancellorMilliken’s eight-point agenda proposes:

• Improve college preparation andtimely graduation. “There are still toomany students who arrive not ready forcollege,” he said. “We need to deepen ourpartnership with the New York Cityschools, which provide three-quarters ofour new freshmen. Eighty percent requireremediation. We need to challenge ourthinking about traditional remediation tomost effectively serve students who arriveat our community colleges unprepared forcollege work. At the most basic level, suchas addressing students’ remediation needs,

or providing an associate degree in a rea-sonable time that leads to a job or a seniorinstitution, or moving senior college stu-dents toward a degree, we still have muchwork to do,” he said. “We have some greatprograms, but we must address the chal-lenges of scaling them effectively.”

• CUNY should be a leader in prepar-ing a workforce for the 21st century. CitingGov. Andrew Cuomo’s scholarshipprogram for STEM — science, technology,engineering and mathematics — studentsand Mayor Bill de Blasio’s investment inSTEM programs at CUNY community col-leges, Milliken said, however, that “realwork needs to start in the public schools”where students often decide to pursue sci-ence and math. He urged “new levels ofcollaboration among the schools, CUNY,government, labor and the private sector”to build upon school-to-employment pro-grams such as P-Tech. Milliken also saidNew York tech sector leaders “are desper-ate for well-trained programmers,software developers and gamers — many ofwhom can come directly from our commu-nity colleges with less time to a degree, lesscost and a quicker path to earning a verygood living. … This is a very attractive pathand one that may be perfect for manyCUNY students.”

• CUNY must develop stronger, richerpublic-private partnerships. “We needmore internship opportunities forstudents that can lead to full-time jobs and

more mentoring opportunities forstudents who are often the first in theirfamily to attend college. We should provideinterested faculty with more opportunitiesto work collaboratively with the privatesector.”

• CUNY must build its research enter-prise and increase its technology develop-ment. “Opportunities in the 21st centuryinclude businesses that didn’t exist in the20th and our faculty and students can bean integral part of the development of newknowledge, new technologies and newprocesses,” the Chancellor said. “We’vemade some impressive investments in sci-ence facilities, with more to come, but wemust double down on recruiting andretaining the best scientists and studentsto reap the full advantage of these invest-ments. We’re in a global race for talent andwe simply must be competitive. We alsoneed an institutional culture that supports,rewards and nurtures faculty who areinterested in commercially developingintellectual property.”

• CUNY should lead in addressingchallenges faces cities. “While much of thisnew spirit of engagement is about develop-ing knowledge and a skilled workforce forthe new economy, there are other benefitsto the city. CUNY should be a leader inresearch, education and engagement thataddresses grand challenges in an increas-ingly urbanized global population, attract-ing leading urban university partners

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Chancellor Milliken delivers the keynote address to the Association for a Better New York at the New York Public Library.

A Global, Digital CUNY, Developing Research,

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around the world.”• CUNY should become Global CUNY.

“Every major university must be global inoutlook and scope, and few universities arebetter positioned than CUNY. We have anenormous advantage: a student body with40 percent born outside this country andstudents who speak almost 200 languages.”Noting that CUNY had a number of stu-dent and faculty winners of Fulbrightawards this year, he said, “I want our grad-uates to be competitive with graduatesfrom the best universities anywhere, andwithout an understanding of the world …they will not be.”

• CUNY should become Digital CUNY.“We are developing new technologicaltools and new classroom platforms, blend-ed learning opportunities that are trans-forming the way subjects are taught,” hesaid, adding, “It’s hard to beat 24-hourasynchronous delivery” offered by digitalclasses. … “I want our students to leaveCUNY very comfortable with online learn-ing.”

• CUNY should be a leader in raisingprivate funds for public higher education.“Despite the fact that New York has beenmore generous than many other states,CUNY cannot achieve its potential andadequately serve New York with only pub-lic funding and modest tuition. We arebecoming much less competitive for facul-ty — and there is no such thing as a univer-sity better than its faculty.”

Chancellor Milliken delivered hisremarks as CUNY experiences recordenrollment this fall — more than 274,000degree-seeking students choosing CUNYValue, the combination of academic quali-ty, affordability, opportunity and the NewYork City experience offered by theUniversity. The many facets of CUNYValue are detailed in a new publication,The CUNY Value Plus, and atcuny.edu/value.

Rising standards at the senior colleges,demographic changes in New York City,where most CUNY students reside, andincreasing city public high school gradua-tion rates have combined to drive upenrollment as more students, includingincreasing numbers of well-prepared stu-dents, choose CUNY colleges for theirextraordinary value encompassing qualityacademics, exceptional affordability andlow student-loan debt among graduates.

Transfer students, overwhelminglyfrom the city, constitute a majority of grad-uates at every CUNY four-year collegeincluding the most highly selective. Two-thirds of students who earn bachelor’sdegrees from CUNY enter baccalaureateprograms as transfers rather than fresh-men.

Ambitious students are increasinglyapplying to CUNY colleges. The numbersof applicants with high school grade pointaverages of 85 or greater was up by 4.2 per-cent to 22,700, another new record, out ofmore than 70,000 students applying forFall 2014. This year more than 12,000 new-ly enrolled freshmen this year received$800 New York City Council MeritScholarships given to students enteringCUNY colleges fromNew York City highschools with B or bet-ter averages.

With colleges con-veniently locatedthroughout the fiveboroughs of culture-and opportunity-richNew York City, CUNYalso offers an array oftraditional extracur-ricular activitiesincluding 199 inter-collegiate sportsteams and a multi-tude of clubs andconnects hundreds ofstudents per yearwith life-changinginternships and serv-ice opportunitiesthrough the CUNYService Corps.

Mentored by dis-tinguished, award-winning professorsand taking advantageof the University’sextensive academicofferings, CUNY stu-dents garner numer-ous prestigiousnational awards year

after year. In 2014, 22 won Fulbrights forstudy and teaching abroad, 16 wonNational Science Foundation GraduateResearch fellowships and CUNY was wellrepresented among winners of other tophonors. Fourteen CUNY professors alsowon Fulbrights for research, teaching andconsulting.

CUNY Value also encompasses supportgiven to students facing hardships such ashomelessness and job loss. Single StopUSA’s offices in the community collegesprovide services and other assistance tosuch vulnerable students, helping themremain in school. The Carroll and MiltonPetrie Foundation Emergency Grant Fundhas given $11 million to more than 5,000CUNY students.

Private donors to CUNY and its collegesprovide extraordinary support for institu-tional scholarships; $560 million in CUNYscholarships, 20 percent of $2.8 billiongiven through the Invest in CUNY initia-tive, has been awarded since 2000 becauseof donors’ generosity.

Chancellor Milliken said of CUNY,“This Great American Dream Machineserves over 500,000 students every year,the vast majority of whom live, work andcontribute to the economy, the tax baseand quality of life in New York. There is nogreater way to leverage a gift than to investin CUNY.”

“The environment for public highereducation is changing in ways that makeCUNY more essential than ever,” he said atthe ABNY breakfast. “We have an ambi-tious agenda … If we’re successful, thereturns to students and to New York willbe tremendous.”

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Chancellor Milliken with former Mayor David Dinkins

ABNY Chairman Bill Rudin with Chancellor Milliken

In a strong show of support for immigrant students,CUNY officials announced a new partnership withTheDream.US Foundation, a new multimillion-

dollar National Scholarship Fund that providesscholarships for undocumented immigrant students.Over the next decade, TheDream.US aims to help morethan 2,000 highly motivated, low-income students tograduate with career-ready degrees.

The scholarship provides up to $25,000 to first-time college students who intend to enroll in a CUNYcollege and community college graduates who want toearn a bachelor’s degree.

According to John Mogulescu, senior Universitydean for academic affairs and dean of the School ofProfessional Studies 1,674 students applied for thescholarships nationwide and 678, or 41 percent, arefrom CUNY colleges. Winners will be announced inDecember.

In addition, The Robin Hood Foundation hasawarded TheDream.US a grant of up to $1.55 millionover three years to fund 100 scholarships (each for$12,500 plus $1,000 for educational expenses) forcommunity college students at CUNY. “This is aparticularly special award as Robin Hood has not inthe past funded scholarships nor multiyear projects,”Mogulescu said.

To be eligible students should be enrolled as aCUNY student or intend to enroll by Fall 2015 as afirst-time college student, or be a community collegegraduate. Students should also have applied for, orhave received, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Last year, three CUNY community collegesparticipated in the program. This year, thescholarships will be available for eligible students atall CUNY undergraduate colleges.

“This is a major development and our studentsshould benefit significantly,” said Chancellor JamesB. Milliken.

While Congress has yet to act on comprehensiveimmigration reform, a documentary film, “UnderwaterDreams,” has captivated audiences nationwide.

“Underwater Dreams” tells the inspirational storyof four undocumented Mexican immigrants who builtan underwater robot from Home Depot parts. The highschool team then entered a robotics competition anddefeated engineering powerhouse M.I.T.

The documentary’s director, Mary Mazzio, discussedthe film with Hunter College sociology professor NancyFoner at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.And University officials announced a new project touse the film as a teaching tool in CUNY programs andcourses. More than 700 CUNY students attended aspecial screening of the documentary to kick off theunique program.

“Underwater Dreams” will be shown in CUNYprecollege, college transition and college successprograms throughout the academic year, said DonnaLinderman, CUNY associate dean for student successinitiatives.

Instructors and advisers will use the film as part ofcollege preparatory workshops and courses and forspecial screenings in programs such as the EarlyCollege Initiative, CUNY Prep, At Home in College,CUNY Start, CLIP, ASAP, Graduation Success Initiative,among others.

To support this work, a team of adultliteracy/education specialists from the CUNY Office ofAcademic Affairs is creating a study guide thataddresses issues and themes in the film.

For more information, see:www.cuny.edu/TheDreamUs.

CUNY Expands ScholarshipProgram for Immigrant StudentsFinancial Aid Creates Opportunities,Film ‘Underwater Dreams’ Inspires

Technology and the Workforce

NEW POLICIES and proce-dures addressing sexualharassment, gender –basedharassment and sexual vio-lence have been drafted by a

City University of New York taskforce after a process of review, revi-sion and CUNY community inputbegan several months ago, and willbe voted on by the Board of Trusteesat its next full meeting in December,Chancellor James B. Millikenannounced.

The new CUNY Policy on SexualMisconduct was developed amidnationwide attention — includingfederal, state and campus initiatives— to sexual assault incidents and pro-cedures on college campuses.President Barack Obama has advo-cated for stronger campus preventionprograms, and Gov. Andrew Cuomorecently ordered an overhaul of StateUniversity of New York policies.

“The leadership and involvementof Gov. Cuomo has drawn into sharpfocus the responsibilities of collegesand universities in New York”regarding sexual assault, theChancellor said.

CUNY’s comprehensive policyrevisions bring definition, clarity andUniversity-wide consistency to thecomplex issues of how sexual mis-conduct, including sexual violence, isdefined and dealt with on campus,and it applies to all members of theCUNY community. It begins with thestatement, “Every member of theCUNY community, including stu-dents, employees and visitors,deserves the opportunity to live,learn and work free from sexualharassment, gender-basedharassment andsexual vio-lence.”

ChancellorMilliken said aproposedrevised studentdiscipline proce-dure containedin revisions to theCUNY Bylaws,governing allalleged infractions,“is designed to besensitive to studentaccusers while safe-guarding the rights ofthe accused, andwould givecomplainants the rightto fully participate inhearings, including pre-senting their side of thestory through testimony,

witnesses, cross-examination, legalrepresentation and having the rightto appeal.”

CUNY’s draft Policy on SexualMisconduct covers education, train-ing, cooperation with law enforce-ment and uniform standards anddefinitions. It defines prohibitedconduct, clarifies confidentiality andestablishes a streamlined reportingprocess and framework for investiga-tion of complaints, among its manyprovisions.

It defines consent as “aninformed, voluntary and mutualdecision to engage in agreed uponsexual activity.” It further providesthat “consent can be given by wordsor actions as long as those words oractions create clear permissionregarding willingness to engage in(and the conditions of ) the sexualactivity. Silence or failure to resistdoes not, in and of itself,demonstrate consent.”

In order to give consent one mustbe of legal age (i.e. 17 years or older)and not mentally or physically inca-pacitated, mentally disabled or phys-ically helpless or asleep.

“Depending on the degree ofin-toxication, someone who is underthe influence of alcohol, drugs orother intoxicants may not be able toconsent.”

A CUNY task force of representa-tives of the University’s offices ofStudent Affairs, Human ResourcesManagement and Legal Affairs, withassistance from outside counsel withspecial expertise, draftedproposed amend-ments

to University student discipline pro-cedures and to policies on sexualassault and sexual harassment. Thetask force included Jane Sovern,deputy general counsel, PauletteDalpes, deputy to the vice chancellorfor student affairs, and JenniferRubain, University dean for recruit-ment and diversity.

The proposed new policy is to beconsidered by the Board of Trusteesat its next full meeting Dec. 1, subjectto Board Committee review, followinga public hearing scheduled Nov. 24.

Extensive CUNY communityinput has been part of the process ofrevising the University’s policy. Inearly September, members of theCUNY community received emailsfrom Frederick P. Schaffer, seniorvice chancellor for legal affairs andgeneral counsel, seeking their inputregarding changes to the studentdisciplinary procedure “to ensurethat the revised Bylaws are as fairand workable as possible within thescope of the federal mandates, andthat the document is easy to read andcomprehensive.” In late September,Senior Vice Chancellor Schafferagain sought community comment,this time on the Policy on SexualMisconduct, “to ensure that therevised policy addresses theconcerns of employees and studentsto the extent possible within thescope of federal and state law,” andhe thanked respondents for theirefforts “in helping CUNY to craft apolicy which will advance CUNY’sgoal of having an environment freefrom sexual harassment and sexualviolence. “

Chancellor Milliken characterizedthe community involvement in thenew policy as “valuable,” saying, “Iappreciate the good work of so manyin the CUNY community in thisprocess.”

I. Policy Statement

Every member of The City University of New York community, including

students, employees and visitors, deserves the opportunity to live, learn and work

free from sexual harassment, gender-based harassment and sexual violence.

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1) Defining conduct that constitutes prohibited sexual harassment, gender-based

harassment and sexual violence;

2) Providing clear guidelines for students, employees and visitors on how to

report incidents of sexual harassment, gender-based harassment and sexual

violence and a commitment that any complaints will be handled respectfully;

3) Promptly responding to and investigating allegations of sexual harassment,

gender-based harassment and sexual violence, pursuing disciplinary action

when appropriate, referring the incident to local law enforcement when

appropriate, and taking action to investigate and address any allegations of

retaliation;

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Government of Switzerland for “UNIHP/FUNDSProject- Switzerland”; and $116,304 from theGovernment of the Netherlands “GCR2P.”Steven Ovadia, Scott White and the LaGuardiaCommunity College Library have received a$25,000 Sparks! Ignition Grant from theInstitute of Museum and Library Services for“Designing Information Assignments forLiteracy,” to enable the Library Media ResourceCenter and the Center for Teaching andLearning to develop an online cross-disciplinary guide showing faculty how toincorporate research and information literacyskill building into coursework and classassignments.

Andrei Jitianu of Lehman College has wona $604,971 grant from the National ScienceFoundation for “Materials World Network,SusChEM: Hybrid Sol-Gel Route to Chromate-Free Anticorrosive Coatings.” The NY StateDepartment of Education has awarded twogrants to Bonne August of New York CityCollege of Technology: $135,000 for “SmartScholars-P-Tech”; and $134,982 for “SmartScholars-City-Poly.” The College of StatenIsland has received a $210,247 grant from theNY State Department of Education/VTEA for“Perkins Funding for Career and TechnicalEducation,” under the direction of Fred Naider.

Jeffrey Parsons of Hunter College hasreceived a $673,514 grant fromPHS/NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse &Alcoholism for “Improving HIV & Alcohol-Related Outcomes among HIV+ Persons inClinic Settings.” Queens College has beenawarded $402,616 in grant funding from theNational Science Foundation for a projectconcerning “Development of Next GenerationQuantum Master Equation and GeneralizationEquation Approaches,” under the direction ofSeogjoo Jang. “Antibody Guided Cell-SELEXTechnology,” a project directed by PrabodhikaMallikaratchy of Lehman College, has received$108,325 in grant support from the NationalInstitutes of Health.

Lorna Thorpe of Hunter College hasreceived two grants: $520,976 from The NY

City Department of Health& Mental Hygiene for a“NYC Health and NutritionEducation Survey”; and$100,000 from the DorisDuke CharitableFoundation for a “NYCHANES Survey.” CityCollege has received a$502,010 grant from the

National Aeronautics and Space Administrationfor Charles Vorosmarty, Balazs Fekete, IrinaGladkova, Michael Grossberg, Kyle McDonaldand Hansong Tang, for “Global-Scale

Assessment of ThreatenedRiver Delta Systems:Evaluation of ConnectionsBetween the ContinentalLand Mass and Oceanthrough Integrated RemoteSensing and ProcessModeling.” CharleneKohler-Britton of Brooklyn

College has received $180,271 from the NYState Office of Children and Family Services fora “New York State Child Care and DevelopmentBlock Grant.” The National Science Foundationhas awarded $125,393 to Reginald Blake ofNew York City College of Technology for “REU inSatellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing atNOAA-CREST 2 Supplement.”

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POLICY ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

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Food to FeedA BurgeoningCityIn Urban Appetites:Food and Culture inNineteenth-CenturyNew York, Cindy Lobel,

an assistant history professor atLehman College, serves up a richlydetailed account of the origins of thefood industry in a century that broughtenormous changes to the city’s cultural,social and political life. Lobel’s culturalhistory takes us on a fascinating tour ofthe foodways, describing the farms andmarkets that supplied the kitchens ofthe burgeoning city.

TheScottsboroBoys’ OrdealFew cases inAmerican legalhistory can equal theinjustice and racism

suffered by the nine black teenagersaccused and wrongly convicted of rapingtwo white girls in Scottsboro, Ala., in1931. In The Scottsboro Boys in TheirOwn Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950,Kwando Kinshasa, professor of sociologyat John Jay College of Criminal Justice,uses letters of the Scottsboro Boys topresent an authentic representation oftheir struggle.

Food, Art andConnectionsWould you like toknow the recipe forFrida Kahlo’s RedSnapper? Or maybeyou might prefer

baking David Hockney’s strawberry cake?In her new work, The Modern ArtCookbook, Mary Ann Caws, aDistinguished Professor of ComparativeLiterature, English and French at theCUNY Graduate Center, explores thedelicious connection between art andliterature and food.

The Voicesof BlackAmericaIn this impressivecollection, Bartlett’sFamiliar Black

Quotations, City College professor RethaPowers documents the words and lyricsof legendary African-American voicesfrom Malcolm X to Maya Angelou. Powersdiscusses her eight-year research projectin compiling the book and her hope ineducating young people on black writtenand oral tradition.

Obama DefiesLeft-RightDogmaSince entering theWhite House, BarackObama has been

battered by criticism from both sides. InOut of Many, One: Obama and the ThirdAmerican Political Tradition, RuthO’Brien, a political science professor atThe CUNY Graduate Center, explains howObama’s leadership style, morestatesman than politician, is partly toblame and argues that he represents thevalues of a lesser-known third traditionin American political thought that defiesthe usual left-right categorization.

NEWTITLES / CUNYAUTHORS

AVA CHIN is an associate professorat the College of Staten Island,where she teaches creative nonfic-tion, memoir and journalism. Butbetween classes it is not unusual to

find her foraging the campus grounds fordelicacies that grow in the wild.

Earlier this year, she meshed her love ofboth writing and foraging into a memoir:Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and

the Perfect Meal, published by Simon andSchuster. Vogue magazine named it one ofthe “Spring’s Best Food Books,” andaccording to Kirkus Reviews it is “a deli-cate feast of the heart.”

The book explores the human connec-tions Chin discovered as part of her searchfor vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, berriesand other edibles in the city’s parks andpatches of nature.

In Staten Island, she says, she evenfound a swarm of wild honeybees.

Chin grew up in a large apartment build-ing in Flushing, raised by a single motherand Chinese grandparents. Her grandfa-ther, born in a Toisanese-speaking villagein southern China, worked in restaurantsin Manhattan, learned to sauté, braise andsear and, according to the author, “taughtme how to eat.” She recalls he prepared awide variety of dishes, many also stronglyinfluenced by the food he knew as a boy.

In foraging she says, “I discovered thatsome of the ingredients that my grandfa-ther used to cook were actually growing allaround us…. I sometimes used to find thewild relatives of his cloud ear mushroomsor wood ear mushrooms … he used to put itin our stir-fries. He would throw it in thehot and sour soup.”

Chin is a Queens College alumna whoearned a master’s from thewriting seminar at JohnsHopkins University anda Ph.D. in literatureand creative writingfrom the University ofSouthern California.She was also, at onetime, the urban foragercolumnist for TheNew York TimesCity Room blog.

Q. Foraging forfood in naturalareas hasbecome anationalmovement.What motivat-ed you to join in?

A. I grew upwithout access to a garden.All I had was the concretecourtyard at my mother'sapartment building. For me,nature was the weeds thatwere growing there, as well asthe plants I would see in theball fields of Queens. But I was the kind ofkid who would pull up the field garlic,which is also known as wild garlic or oniongrass. I knew that it was edible because itsmelled and tasted just like the scallionsand Chinese chives that my grandfatherused to cook. I also would go fishing inNew York City waters and I would bringback my catch and have my family cook itup and eat it. But I didn’t start foraging inearnest until I was an adult. Also, I wasforaging on the heels of a breakup.

Q. Who were your own teachers in thisendeavor?

A. I learned from naturalists in NewYork City as well as across the country. Iwent on a foraging walk, my very first for-aging walk, with Steve Brill in CentralPark. And I went on other walks with himthrough Brooklyn. I met other foragers onthese walks, and I went on walks withthem. And I backed up my knowledge withguidebooks, like Euell Gibbons’s Stalking

The Wild Asparagus and The Peterson’s

Field Guides.

Q. Your memoir deals with painfulepisodes of your childhood and a some-times tense relationship with your moth-er. Can you tell us how foraging helpedyou think differently about these?

A. There was a way that my mother and Icarried the wound of my father’s walking

out on us for many, many years. Then Istarted foraging, in particular in the city. I

saw the blocksthat were sofamiliar to methroughchildhoodand throughmy twenties.

I started tosee these

blocks in a total-ly different fashion. I

realized that so many ofthe weeds around us havea culinary or a medicinalprofile. I became reallyinspired by these plantsonce I realized that someof the ingredients that

my grandfather used to cook with wereactually growing here. Nature was abun-dant. That helped me to understand thatthere wasn’t anything wrong with mymother and I. We weren’t lacking for any-thing. We just didn’t know where to look.

Q. Another fascinating part of the bookis when you deal with the varying legali-ties of foraging.

A. The federal parks department hasguidelines regarding where you’re allowedto forage for personal consumption. NewYork City’s Parks Department has a lawagainst foraging for plants in the park. I feelwe should have a more open idea about for-aging. In Europe there are laws that permitforaging. In Scandinavia there’s somethingcalled, the right to roam, allemansrätten.Foraging is also protected under the UnitedKingdom’s Theft Act of 1968 where you’reallowed to take anything that’s renewable;flowers or nuts, berries, foliage, and it’s notconsidered theft if you take it, even off ofyour neighbor’s lawn — though that mightnot be very neighborly.

Q. You write about how interest inforaging has grown to the point wherepeople are throwing wild-food partiesand selling boxed, wild edibles. But yousay that you prefer to talk about the hid-den foragers, the immigrant grandmoth-erly types that you encountered in FortGreen and Prospect Park, who are prac-ticing the foraging habits of their home-

lands. Can you tell us about them?

A. In the fall I often run into thoseChinese grandmotherly types in Flushingand Brooklyn. They are foraging for gink-gos, the kinds of seed/fruit that litters thecity streets. This is for its nutlike centers,which can be added to soups and also eatenas little side dishes. I’ve also seen Asianladies foraging for something called mug-wort, which is a plant that grows through-out the city. In the summertime, it grows astall as your shoulders. They gather it for amedicinal practice that exists in traditionalChinese medicine as well as in someKorean medicine. They burn whole sec-tions of mugwort near different parts of thebody to help increase circulation.

Q. What advice would you give towould-be foragers?

A. The first thing to do is to try to findsomebody who is an expert guide, who canshow you what’s edible and what’s poten-tially poisonous. Luckily, in the city wehave more and more foragers who are run-ning foraging tours within the fiveboroughs. From there you can supplementyour knowledge with guidebooks, as I did.There’s also a handy app called iPlant withBrigitte Mars, and Leda Meredith has anew book called Northeast Foraging.

Q. And for would-be memoirists?

A. In memoir writing, you’re trying tomake a good-faith effort to tell the truth.The first thing I always tell would-be mem-oir writers is that you need to write as com-passionately as possible about the peoplethat you’re including within your narrative.The other thing is you need to stay true toyour own writing voice and your own story.So you have to kind of juggle both things.It’s your story but you love — and careabout — people that you’re still in touchwith, people who are still alive. Trying tomaintain their goodwill is something thatis always first and foremost in my mind.

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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life,Love and the Perfect Meal

By Ava ChinSimon and Schuster

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SUSAN CRILE is a painter andprintmaker of considerablerenown. Her work — rangingfrom the political and incensedto the lyrical — has been exhib-

ited internationally and is in the collectionsof such prominent institutions as the Met-ropolitan Museum of Art, the GuggenheimMuseum and, in Washington, the Hirsh-horn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

She is also a Hunter College tenuredprofessor of studio art.

Despite having the kind of success somany artists dream about, Crile has notmade a fortune. But she loves her two“jobs” and works them hard. Like many ofher colleagues, she views her teaching asher steady employment and her art as her“business.”

But in 2005, the Internal RevenueService informed Crile that it did notagree. In a trial last November (and in amove decried by many artists), the IRSargued that because the professor’s teach-ing and her art are interrelated — and thatprofessors in her field are expected toexhibit their work — Crile was not enti-tled to take deductions for expenses relat-ed to her art business.

Instead, the IRS characterized her seri-ous and critically acclaimed art career as“a hobby” and contended that she under-paid her taxes by more than $81,000 from2004 to 2009.

In 2014, Crile won the first — and per-haps most crucial — part of her case. Shegot a decision from the United States TaxCourt that her work as an artist is a “tradeor business” separate from her teaching.

The Tax Court noted that she was anartist before she began her teachingcareer and continues to be one today, eventhough she was awarded tenure years ago.

Crile is heartened by the win but tiredof the long battle. She emphasizes that hervictory is not only a major one for artistsbut also for all employees who have“steady” jobs and separate, independentbusinesses, even fledgling ones.

(Technically, the case is most relevantfor those who claim deductions for a “tradeor business” on Schedule C — or form 1040.According to the IRS, individuals should:“Use this schedule to report income or lossfrom a business you operated or a profes-sion you practiced as a sole proprietor.”)

Crile says she hopes that staff and fac-ulty at CUNY, and nationwide, will takeheart from the decision — and learn fromit as well.

The Tax Court, which handed down itsruling in October, agreed that Crile’sartistic career constituted a “trade orbusiness” apart from her teaching in that“she had an actual and honest objective ofmaking a profit.” The intent to make aprofit from the business is the key inquirywhen determining whether Schedule Cdeductions are allowed.

To determine whether an individualclaiming trade or business deductionsintends to make a profit, the Tax Courtlooks at a nine-factor test. The nine factorsdeal with issues such as whether the tax-payer engages in the effort in a business-like manner, whether they have expertisein the subject matter, and what theirfinancial status is separate from their

trade or business. (The full list can befound at the IRS Web site under publica-tions for activities engaged in for profit.)

Under the law, you do not need to meetall nine factors, but it is important to meeta predominance of them. Good records arevital in that respect, since they constitutemuch of the evidence a court will considerwhen evaluating profit motive under thenine-factor test. As Crile advised, “Keeprecords, keep records, keep records.”

Her attorney, Micaela McMurrough ofCravath, Swaine & Moore, reiterates that

instruction: “Keep records of who comes tosee your work, who you have tried to con-tact and how you have tried to promoteyour work. Do you have an inventory ofyour work? Your correspondence? If, forexample, you are someone developing anapp, do you have a record of someone whois doing market research? Do you have arecord of where the market is for this?”

The second part of Crile’s case — still tobe resolved — relates to the specificdeductions she took as an artist.

Crile has had a career as an artist for

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Violence, unfortunately, is often at the top of the news – at home and abroad. Violenceprevention, however, seems to get short shrift. But not at CUNY. Once again, incompliance with New York State law, which requires employers to develop violence

prevention programs, to identify workplace hazards, and to train employees annually onhow to avoid the dangers, all University employees are required to take an online

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more than 40 years. According to courtpapers, she earned $667,902 from the saleof 356 works between 1971 and 2013, oran average of less than $16,000 a year. Shestarted teaching at Hunter in a part-timeposition in 1983 and earned tenure in1994. Her work has been fueled by con-temporary events such as the PersianGulf War and abuses at Abu Ghraib prisonbut also by Venetian tile and the walls ofRome. She is currently working on aseries of life-size paintings of Guantan-amo prisoners and paintings on the BP

oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.For more on her work please see

http://susancrile.comCrile says she doesn’t know why the IRS

focused on her. “I think that they decided— for whatever reason — to use me as atest case. And why they decided, I don’tknow.” It was, she says, “very invasive.”

Asked whether the experience hasinspired any new art, Crile says, “ I haven’tbeen able to get to the point where I canthink about art in relation to this. It’s justgetting through it.”

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IN HIS NEW BOOK, The Divide: American Injustice in theAge of the Wealth Gap, bestselling author Matt Taibbi

explores how the income gap between the wealthy andthe poor is also reflected in who is targeted forprosecution and incarceration. “I’m trying to show thetwo different ways that the criminal justice system worksfor these two different types of offenders,” said Taibbi, atan event at Hunter’s Roosevelt House. Taibbi, who won aNational Magazine Award for his columns in RollingStone in 2008, was interviewed by ProPublica presidentand founding general manager, Richard Tofel, to discussthe inequity of American crime and punishment.

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Bernard Spitzer, 90, a City College graduate andprominent New York City real estate developer andphilanthropist, died Nov. 1 at his home in Manhattan.The son of Austrian immigrants, he earned a bachelor’sdegree in civil engineering from the college in 1943before joining the Navy and serving in World War II inGermany. With his own company, he developed majorresidential properties in New York City and through afamily foundation donated millions of dollars to thearchitecture school at the City College, named for himand his wife, Anne.

Edward V. Regan, 84, the former New York StateComptroller who served as president of Baruch Collegefrom 2000 to 2004, died on Oct. 18. Campus.

Paul Gibson Jr., 86, a City College graduate and NewYork City’s first black deputy mayor, died on July 11 athis home in Jamaica, Queens.

Claire Tow, 83, Brooklyn College ’49, co-founder ofCentury Communications and president of thecharitable Tow Foundation, died July 7.

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